iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

While my wife was getting a valuable two hours of sleep before she was woken with contractions signaling the birth of our first born child 19 hours later, I was not quite tired enough to sleep. UnknowingIy missing out on my last chance to sleep for a while, I was typing away at a PHP… Continue Reading PHP script to download files from GMail

My wife Lindsay and I are excited to announce the birth of our first child: Evan Isaac Clare Evan was born on Tuesday November 16th 2010 at 19:33 at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario Canada. He was born 7 pounds 10 ounces, 8 lbs 4 as of Monday November 22nd. His four grandparents, two… Continue Reading Birth Blog Announcement of Evan Clare

My web site passnerd.com has had some recent updates. Here’s what to look for: There’s a new complexity picker. The site has got even more light-weight and should load even faster than before. There is a new mobile version ( preview it at passnerd.com/?mobile ) You can enter the password length into the URL, for… Continue Reading Updates from the PassNerd

Unless you’re reading this posting via Facebook, you may have noticed that you now have to sign in to add comments to my blog postings. I tried to resist as long as possible, but the signal to noise ratio was getting too high for me whenever I had to approve comments. I could have add… Continue Reading Adding comments to my blog

Since I just went through the process of setting-up my own self-managed VPS (virtual private server) system I figured I’d share my experience in the hopes that it will help someone else with some basic command-line comfort looking to gain control of their web hosting or being the process of scaling up. This is the… Continue Reading Setting up a server